WhatBirdcom is a site for identifying North American birds by either step-by-step search, bird browser or by shape, color or place you saw it.
Link via Daniel.
Category Archives: Useful
Birds!
“The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a great source for all kinds of information on our feathered friends. The bird identification section is particular useful. There are also NestCams.”
Shamelessly stolen from MetaFilter a couple of weeks ago. I just remembered the link because we recently acquired a book on birds. (We also bought one to identify all the birds we saw on our trip to the USA this summer.)
Schaffe, schaffe, Häusle baue
Ask MetaFilter: Home hacks. “What sort of ‘neat’ things and convenience features would you design into your dream home?”
The postings are chock-full of interesting, great and sometimes just plain crazy ideas. You’d need millions to incorporate everything into one house, but there are some really good and inspiring ideas here.
rofl – pwned – hrhr!
Urban Dictionary is a useful site when students garnish their written tests with strange words and acronyms out of frustration – they sure are impressed if you can translate them even though you’re thirty (which from a seventeen-year old’s perspective seems to be reeeally old sometimes).
Spamalot
Die Zeit Wirtschaft: Die Spam-Jäger. “Unerwünschte E-Mails sind eine Plage. Verbraucherschützer haben im Internet eine Beschwerdeseite eingerichtet und sind vom Erfolg überrascht.” Von Monika Ermert.